A cocksure, arrogant little pain-in-the-neck fanatic who pecks out words under the delusion that it means something and makes a difference and somehow, over the morning coffee, somebody is going to agree.

Who knows, maybe it's a mental illness.

Some people talk to themselves, and some people write, and somehow society has decided that one gets committed and one gets a paycheck. Cut your ear off and you're a kook. Paint a picture of yourself with your ear cut off and you're an artist.

Go figure.

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